These are a few comments posted by me on facebook on another friend of mine's topic...
we're actually less free. the terrorists won a small battle and we continue to commemorate it each year. Patriot's Day, eh? ha.
I get that, from an american's perspective, we are commemorating fallen citizens and surviving heroes. Seeing the issue from the perspective of those who would like to see more dead Americans, this holiday is a rememberance of their victory. Unity is a false outcome of 9.11.01 that has been touted by our leaders, but not evidenced by any actions on the ground (easy example = the current domestic political climate). So no, I don't think it's harsh. Not even a scosch.
To me, Patriot's Day marks the unified acceptance of a foreign and domestic policy paradigm shift that has resulted in less freedom for our people. The USA PATRIOT Act is a merely a symptom of the ultimately blinding disease of nationalism. It's all due to misguided American political policy that was born from the ashes of the destruction witnessed on 09.11.01. We have thus created a holiday which, in effect, commemorates the adoption of a foreign policy that has normalized an unapologetic, self-righteous neo-colonial war machine.
-RKM
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